Tawny Weber - Navy Seal Bodyguard

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Back Cover Text An undercover mission means deadly danger for one Navy SEAL A brand-new Aegis Security romance After his career as a SEAL is cut short by injury, Spence Lloyd is thrilled when he gets a top secret assignment. But it’s hardly the death-defying action he’s used to. Instead, Spence must protect a high-ranking admiral’s beautiful daughter. As stubborn as she is alluring, Mia Cade presents a unique challenge to her bodyguard—one that will test his head and his heart...

About the Author TAWNY WEBER is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty books. She writes sassy, emotional romances with a dash of humor and believes that it all comes down to heroes. In fact, she’s made her career writing about heroes, most notably her popular navy SEALs series. Tawny credits her ex-military alpha husband for inspiration in her writing, and in her life. The recipient of numerous writing accolades, including the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, she has also hit number one on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists. A homeschooling mom, Tawny enjoys scrapbooking, gardening and spending time with her family and dogs in her Northern California home. Visit Tawny on the web at www.tawnyweber.com . You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Goodreads. Facebook.com/TawnyWeber.RomanceAuthor Twitter.com/TawnyWeber Pinterest.com/TawnyWeber Goodreads.com/Author/Show/513828.Tawny_Weber

Booklist Also by Tawny Weber Contents Cover Back Cover Text About the Author Booklist Title Page Copyright Introduction Dear Reader Dedication Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 About the Publisher Aegis Security Navy SEAL to the Rescue Navy SEAL Bodyguard Nice & Naughty Midnight Special Naughty Christmas Nights Uniformly Hot! A SEAL’s Seduction A SEAL’s Surrender A SEAL’s Salvation A SEAL’s Kiss A SEAL’s Fantasy Christmas with a SEAL A SEAL’s Secret A SEAL’s Pleasure A SEAL’s Temptation A SEAL’s Touch A SEAL’s Desire One Night with a SEAL Team Poseidon Night Maneuvers Call to Honor Call to Engage Call to Redemption Discover more at millsandboon.co.uk .

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Copyright ISBN: 978-1-474-09405-4 NAVY SEAL BODYGUARD © 2019 Tawny Weber Published in Great Britain 2019 by Mills & Boon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental. By payment of the required fees, you are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and licence to download and install this e-book on your personal computer, tablet computer, smart phone or other electronic reading device only (each a “Licensed Device”) and to access, display and read the text of this e-book on-screen on your Licensed Device. Except to the extent any of these acts shall be permitted pursuant to any mandatory provision of applicable law but no further, no part of this e-book or its text or images may be reproduced, transmitted, distributed, translated, converted or adapted for use on another file format, communicated to the public, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of publisher. ® and ™ are trademarks owned and used by the trademark owner and/or its licensee. Trademarks marked with ® are registered with the United Kingdom Patent Office and/or the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market and in other countries. www.millsandboon.co.uk Version: 2020-03-02

Introduction “I want you.” Mia’s smile was candy-sweet, but the light in her eyes was pure challenge. “Do you want me?” Spence would rather take a bullet than hurt her, but he knew a trap when he teetered on the edge of one. Truth or lie, either way he’d be in trouble. The upside? She didn’t wait for his response. “What do you say? Want to see if we’re any good together?” The downside? Her words were tempting enough to destroy his resistance. He stared at that gorgeous face, with her full lips tilted in a bold smile and those fairy eyes glowing. Refusal was on the tip of his tongue, then he looked closer. There was just a hint of nerves lurking there, just beneath the desire. That vulnerability hit him even harder than the desire, melting the rest of his resistance like fire melted wax. Where was a sniper when he needed one?

Dear Reader

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

About the Publisher

“I s everything in place?”

“It will be. I’ve got Mia Cade just where I want her. A few more days at the most and she’ll be our conduit to Senator Penz.”

“Perfect. Penz has no idea what’s going to hit him.”

“And Mia? When you murder the senator? What’ll happen to her?”

“Señorita Cade is our—what’s the term? Fall guy? First we use her to lure in Penz. Then we eliminate her in a simple murder-suicide. Loose ends are tidied, our enemies are dead and we are avenged.”

“Poor Mia won’t know what hit her. It just goes to show that it never pays to be a do-gooder.” Laughter rang through the phone line, cold and vicious.

And just a little insane.

Mia Cade had two goals in life. One, to put as much distance as possible between herself and the manipulation, irritation and, most of all, interference of her family. Two, to help raise millions of dollars for charity.

She figured both goals were a direct product of her upbringing.

She’d spent her formative years as a Navy brat, her family packing up every couple of years to relocate to a new place in the world. With every move, Mia’s older sister, Megan, threw another fit about leaving her friends, and her younger sister developed some new ailment that ensured their mother’s full attention. Leaving Mia to organize and handle the details of unpacking and getting the family settled in their new home.

Their mother toured them through every new city or country, ensuring that they saw the good and the bad. The rich and the poor. Her purpose was to instill appreciation in her children, along with as much culture as possible.

In London, they’d visited Buckingham Palace, watched Macbeth onstage at the Royal Opera House and organized a Fill Your Boots charity campaign, collecting money on base for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.

In Shanghai, they’d prayed in the Jade Buddha Temple, toured the Shanghai Museum and spent a few hours a week reading to disabled orphans.

Megan had gotten in trouble for shoplifting in London, had a screaming match with their mother in the Louvre and had tried to run away in Tibet. Marley, on the other hand, developed migraines in Virginia, violent allergies in Tokyo and pneumonia in Alaska. And so it went in Honolulu, Bahrain, Venice and New York. Every new station was a sea of unfamiliar faces, cultural education and charitable works, combined with high drama, hospital visits and Mia desperately trying to organize her life into some semblance of sanity.